SAHRR Round 1 - hour-glass block

Hi and welcome 😎 Today is a short post to share with you my hour-glass blocks from the Stay At Home Round Robin (SAHRR).

Hour-glass blocks

I want to thank Brenda at Songbird Designs for the links to a great tutorial for the hour-glass block. Since I can make half-square triangles, two at a time, I can make an hour-glass block. Yay! Simple is my idea of fun 😁

Centre block and hour-glass blocks

It  took me longer to take the above picture than it did to make the four blocks! Crazy 😏 The blocks may end up on the corners, where the horizontal and vertical rows meet, but it turned out to be much easier to take the picture this way. Like I've mentioned before, my design wall is small.

Below is the fabric that I've curated for this project. Of course I reserve the right to change my mind at any time.

Basket of potential fabrics

This weekend Poppy visited with my son & DIL. We had a great time. 

Poppy trying to ignore us 😍

What I learned & updates

• You may have noticed that Project Quilting (PQ) didn't get done here. Sometimes you have to prioritize family 💗 and rest.
• I was able to make the hour-glass blocks easily. Thanks for the great tutorial (see Related links).
• I have some lovely fabric picked - even a few from the original blocks.
• I was thinking of making some tiny hour-glass blocks within a block....we'll see.
• Poppy was so happy to visit but didn't get to run in the back yard - there's over a foot of snow and not much wildlife hanging out, except the rabbits.
• I haven't made my first blue house, but it'll be ready by Thursday. I took out some fabric scraps. We're half way there 😁.
• The Cowboy panel quilt is coming along...but I have some unstitching to do - the backing fabric got folded under and needs to be fixed 😓

Related links

• Starting Things and I Quilted This!, January 15, 2026
• SAHRR 2026 – Round One: As Sand through the Hourglass…
• Quarter-Square Triangle Tutorial, The Crafty Quilter

Linking parties

I'll be linking up to many fun linking parties, including the SAHRR Round 1 link up and I Quilted This! Design Wall Monday,